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0524 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 524 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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Kilian Pass, taking a route that had never been travelled by a European.¹ Besides
Kilian (17,450) he crossed six other passes before reaching Kok-yar. He regards
the Zarafshan as the principal source of the Yarkand River. He followed the Zarafshan
to its junction with the Tung River and then went over the Kotal-i-Kandar (16,350).

Among Dauvergne's results WALKER points out 1. »That there is a second
chain parallel to the great chain of the Kuen-lun, on the north, towards Kashgaria.
2. That the river of the valley of Tung is an affluent of the Zarafshan, and not a
tributary of the Tagh-dum-bash River, as is shown on Russian maps.»

A few years later, 1894, General J. T. WALKER wrote an interesting Note on
the Royal Geographical Society's map of Tibet.² In the Society's office the com-
pilation of this map had been in progress for several years. And in the form it
appears in 1894, it is said to contain all the latest information. This map has been
a good help to all students of the geography of Tibet, so, for instance, to me during
all my journeys in Tibet. It is also very valuable as a document showing what was
known in 1894, and as a stage on the road to a complete knowledge of the country
which still belongs to the future.

Amongst the material used, Walker especially mentions NAIN SING and KRISHNA,
and other Trans-Himalayan operations of the native explorers attached to the Indian
Survey. West of 82° Long. all details have been taken from the maps of the Indian
Survey,³ and from the work of CAREY, DALGLEISH, PIEVTSOFF, PRSHEVALSKIY
LITTLEDALE, BOWER, BONVALOT, ROCKHILL.

A considerable portion of the very elevated region of Chang-tang, which lies between
the Kuen-lun Range and the route taken by Captain Bower, is shown as a blank. Russian
maps show ranges of hills on this tract which may possibly exist, but are as yet purely
conjectural. Thus a blank, with the word »unexplored» printed across it, has been adopted
as at present preferable.